John Mayne

Dr. Mayne is an independent advisor on public sector performance. He has
worked for 30 years in the federal government of Canada in evaluation,
RBM and auditing. He has also worked with a number of organizations and
jurisdictions, including several agencies of the UN, the Challenge
Program on Water and Food, the European Union, the Scottish Government,
the United Nations Secretariat, the International Development Research
Centre, the Asian Development Bank and several Canadian federal
departments on results management, evaluation and accountability issues.
Until 2004, he was at the Office of the Auditor General where he led
efforts at developing practices for effective managing for results and
performance reporting in the government of Canada, as well as leading
the Office’s audit efforts in accountability and governance. Prior to
1995, Dr. Mayne was with the Canadian Treasury Board Secretariat and
Office of the Comptroller General. He has authored numerous articles
and reports, and edited five books in the areas of program evaluation,
public administration and performance monitoring. In 1989 and in 1995,
he was awarded the Canadian Evaluation Society Award for
Contribution to Evaluation in Canada. In 2006, he became a
Canadian Evaluation Society Fellow.